Just as a side note, I think anyone with the drastic impact that someone like RMS has had on all of our lives here, can have a fair amount of leniency in the areas of craziness, diplomatic ability, and <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px">linguistic</span> pickiness.<div class="HOEnZb">

I used to agree with him but in the last 10 years or so he has gone a little nuts. I used to make some good points.<div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Chad Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chad78@gmail.com" target="_blank">chad78@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">His name is Dick.<div><br></div><div>He is a crazy person because he regularly demands that projects to which he has offered exactly zero support or endorsement use the term "GNU/Linux" because he believes that everyone who ever used anything Linux related owes him worship and adoration.</div>

<div><br></div><div>I have seen this first hand. It was my first introduction to who he was. He came on the OpenOffice.org mailing list (which was my introduction to open source software) and demanded that project start using the term "GNU/Linux" on its website, or face his wraith.</div>

<div><br></div><div>That's how I "met" Dick Stallman. I have never seen any reason to change my initial impression of him as an insane fanatical-to-the-point-of-blackmail Free Software Freak (which is what FSF really stands for).</div>

<div><br></div><div>Personally, I don't care if you pronounce it Lynn-ucks or Line-icks or some other weird combination. But if you call it GNU/Linux, my impression of you drops about 75 points. All thanks to Dick Stallman.</div>

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I just watched this interview and heard Richard say that he does not support open source. <a href="http://youtu.be/uFMMXRoSxnA" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/uFMMXRoSxnA</a> I thought the entire world of GNU and Linux was mainly open source based. Could someone please explain?<br>